diff --git a/bin/gatherstats.pl b/bin/gatherstats.pl
index b4c844e..9b02bfa 100755
--- a/bin/gatherstats.pl
+++ b/bin/gatherstats.pl
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ sub HostStats {
       $Postings{$Host}++;
       $Postings{'ALL'}++;
     } else {
-      &Bleat(2,sprintf("%s FAILED", $Header{'message-id'})) if !$Host;
+      &Bleat(1,sprintf("%s FAILED", $Header{'message-id'})) if !$Host;
     }
 
     printf("%s: %s\n", $Header{'message-id'}, $Host) if ($MID or $Debug && $Debug >1);
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ sub ClientStats {
                            version => $Version);
           push @Clients, { %UserAgent };
         } else {
-          &Bleat(2,sprintf("%s FAILED", $Header{'message-id'})) if !@Clients;
+          &Bleat(1,sprintf("%s FAILED", $Header{'message-id'})) if !@Clients;
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index f230009..e102c34 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ NewsStats 0.4.0 (unreleased)
   * Move cliservstats to hoststats.
   * Add clientstats (for clients).
   * Add ClientStats to postingstats.
+  * gatherstats: Don't die on parsing errors.
 
 NewsStats 0.3.0 (2025-05-18)
   * Extract GroupStats (in gatherstats) to subroutine.